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Child poverty continues to rise as pandemic response falls short for families

26 March 2020
As the Government puts in place welcome emergency measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic, child poverty continues its upward trend without an effective strategy to tackle it.
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Poor children need a Coronavirus bonus

26 March 2020
The increase to the universal credit (UC) standard allowance and the working tax credit basic element by £20 per week as part of the government’s response to the Coronavirus is welcome. According to the Resolution Foundation[1] “Having recently fallen to their lowest real-terms value since the early 1990s, the main adult rate of unemployment benefits is now at its highest ever level, as the chart below shows. Relative to average earnings, it is at its highest level since 1998-99
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Campaigners call for action as official stats show nearly one in four of Scotland's children in poverty - even before corona pandemic

26 March 2020
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COVID-19 resources for benefit advisers

23 March 2020
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Response to Chancellor's announcements on supporting jobs during COVID-19

20 March 2020
Our response to the Chancellor's announcement's today.
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COVID-19

20 March 2020
Our response to COVID-19
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Anti-poverty campaigners in new call for councils to make cash payments to hard up families as schools close

19 March 2020
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Children's charities, parents groups, teaching unions and churches unite in call for cash payment for families as schools close

19 March 2020
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Open letter on the impact of Covid-19 school closures

18 March 2020
An open letter to the First Minister calling for cash payments to families who rely on free school meals.
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Coronavirus: Child Poverty Action Group calls for emergency child payment for families hit by school closures

16 March 2020
Child Poverty Action Group is urging the Government to increase payments for children if schools close because of Coronavirus, to protect children in low-income families facing extra financial pressure and the loss of free school meals. Ideally the payments could be made through a £10 per week uplift in child benefit for the duration of the pandemic.
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